Submitted 11 months ago by zzzz@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Hi smart people,
If I have several computers on my home network and I have not set any explicit QoS rules on my router, how is bandwidth allocated? For example, if computer 1 is downloading a torrent at max speed and a second computer starts a download, how is the bandwidth allocation between the two determined? Thanks!
FIFO.
Torrents will fight to the death for bandwidth, so I’d limit them first.
If you want a really in-depth description, this article will give it to you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_congestion_control
Your torrenting might not be using TCP, but the same basic idea is the same.
TL;DR: the router uses some math and so forth to tell both computers to slow down to the point that it’s not overloaded.
Cool, thank you.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Torrents open multiple connections with independent congestion control. If the second computer downloads from a single server at the same time, then it’s gonna certainly lose against the torrent.